Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07
LOCKJAW.

The medical name for lockjaW is tetQnus.
Sometimes it is only, or mainly, the mus
cles of the Jaws that are affected in the
disease, but commonly the rigid condition
is much more extensive, often reaching
to most of the muscles of the body. In
it's severer form it is one of the most terri
BILE of diseases. The mind generally re.
mains clear to the last, unless it is blunted
by opiates. .
The disease begins by a pinched look of
the face. In a few hours the muscles OF
the Jaw, neck, back and chest become
rigid, and the rigidity at length extends
to the limbs. This rigidity is permanent,
and sometimes is so great that the body
could be taken up like a stick OF timber,
or it may rest its weight on its head and
feet. From time to time spasms occur,
lasting q few seconds or several minutes.
The seat of the trouble is in the nerves,
and hence a spasm may be brought on by
a slight noise, a touch, or ever a breath OF
air.
AS the muscles of respiration are usually
affected, the breathing is greatly impeded,
and often, for the time, rendered wholly
impossible, the chest being held as in a
wise. Death frequently results from this
cause, the system being previously ex-
hausted by pain and lack of sleep and
nourishment. If the patient survives be-
yond the twelfth day, he is likely to re-
cover; but no known medicine IS able to
do more than promote sleep and benumD
the sensibilities.
The cause is unknown. 1t may follow
wounds, or be independent of wounds,
the latter being the most hopeful cases.
The wounds may be either severe or slight,
but most wounds are not followed by teto-
nus. 1t is probable that, in persons OF a
peculiar nervous susceptibility, and under
certain not we'll understood conditions, q
poison is developed within the system.
Hence, the only hope of a cure is to sustain
the patient with stimulants, nourishment
and sleep, until the system AN eliminate
the poison.
In case of a severe wound, especially in
the neighborhood of nerve centres, great
care should be exercised in dressing the in
Jury, so as to bring the parts we'll together,
and the parts should be kept clean with a
mild carbolic acid solution, or some other
good antiseptic wash.- Youths Companion.
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WITH THE LARGE MAJoR1TY.-The
Louisiana Lottery prints almost every
month in. the newspapers of the country
long stories of the sudden rise Of ticket
holders from povertyto wealth. ButCash-
Ter Bartlett, of Sumter, represents the
great majority of the patrons of the game,
and their story is eve told over the
signatures of Gen. Beauregard and Gen.
Early.
If Some of the newspapers that print the
eloquent descriptions ofhoW a colored host
Ter or a white laborer suddenly became
possessed of $4,000 would tell how MIR;
Bartlett and many like him suddenly fell
from honored positions and comfort to
ruin, disgrace and flight, they would get
the subject before the public fairly.-Char-
lesion Sun.
The BIG SUIT AT SHELBY.-The Supe-
rior Court of Cleveland county was occu-
pied all of last week in trying the Mckee
Davenport case from Castor. Over 100
witnesses were eXamined-about 30 for
Davenport and the balance for Mckee.
After about a hours consultation, the
Jury rendered a verdict in favor of DAY.
export. Another appeal to the Supreme
Court was taken, this time by Mckee.
The cost amounts to three or four times the
amount of principal involved, which prin-
cipal is about 81, 700. Davenport was the
County Treasurer, and Mckee was the
Sheriff. Mckee held a receipt for county
funds, which Davenport pronounced a
forgery.-Marlotte Democrat.
n5- BODYBUILDING and road-reparing are
a science, and an important science, too;
and it is ridiculous that work of such prac-
teal Importance should be so largely IN.
trusted to men who, however skilled n
successful they may be in their own de-
partment of Industry, know little of the
principles of surveying or scientific road
making, and whose only idea of repairing
a roadway until it becomes a ridge of soil,
along the narrow surface of which teams
have nick their NAY.